I asked a question (screenshot) because my app was exiting immediately whenever I launched my app from the Dock but not when I tested it in Xcode. The only change I thought I had made that I thought was significant enough to matter was that my app was done using pure programming rather than any XIB or Storyboard files. But it turns out that an unrelated code fragment in the main() function which would exit() if some open() operation failed was the culprit.
I asked about it and provided a 'minimal'reproducible example, but as it turns out, the problem was not in the example I provided but in an unrelated part of the code I thought was unimportant to the question but was actually the problem. So of course the issue cannot be reproduced using the info in the question so I deleted it. It got an answer that addresses some possible (incorrect) reasons why the problem might be occurring.
Would it be acceptable to edit the question to be about the real problem, like why the open() was not working when the app was running from the Dock, even though the new one would be of little resemblance to the old one? What should I do about the fact that it has an answer? Or am I better off leaving it deleted and asking a new question if I see enough value in doing so?